25 January 2000Arrest of Hissene HabreHissene Habre
A complaint is submitted in Dakar, Senegal, against former Chad dictator Hissene Habre, it details 97 allegations of political killings, 142 cases of torture and 100 disappearances
Historical records for Chad in 2000, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
A complaint is submitted in Dakar, Senegal, against former Chad dictator Hissene Habre, it details 97 allegations of political killings, 142 cases of torture and 100 disappearances
Habre is indicted
A Senegalese court indicts Hissene Habre, the former autocrat of Chad
The World Bank approves a $3.7 billion oil well and pipeline project led by Exxon and Mobile to link oil fields in Chad across 663 miles to the Atlantic coast of Cameroon
The World Bank endorses a $3.5 billion oil project with 80% of the revenues to go to development
It is reported that $4 million of a $25 million bonus payment from the new oil project was used by the Chad Government to buy weapons
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